[7] Towards 1780 the maxim ran: Molti averne, Un goderne, E cambiar spesso Travels of Shylock [Sherlock?—Tr.].
— from On Love by Stendhal

As to the question of praise being called for from inanimate things or irrational beings, we must remember that though unfitted, so far as we understand them, for conscious praise, their creation, maintenance, and usefulness give evidence of God's greatness and goodness.
— from The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

Now and then a half groan escaped those who seemed the strongest; but with the exception of the universally open mouth and upturned ghastly eye, there were no signs of much suffering.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

He sought to improve the society in which he moved, and used great exertions to guard young men against the purlieus of vice.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

En el contemplar halla mi alma un gozo estraño, pienso estalla mirando, despues en mi tornando, pesame que dura poco el engaño: no pido otra alegria, sino engañar mi triste fantasia.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

And many an unfortunate, getting entangled in a soft gray curtain of silk that hung across the path, struggled vainly to extricate himself, till the hairy monster which had woven the snare crept out of his den and cracked his bones and sucked the last drop of his blood.
— from Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Mary Spring Corning

Nor are the more tumultuous sides of human passion represented, for it is impossible so to regard Corisca's love for Mirtillo, which is at bottom nothing but the cynical caprice of the courtesan, who regards her lovers merely as so many changes of garment-- Molti averne, uno goderne, e cangiar spesso.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

It was then they were told of crowds of citizens, most of whom had been favourable to the republican order of things, and had borne arms against the Vendéans in their attack upon Nantes; men accused upon grounds equally slight, and incapable of proof, having been piled together in dungeons, where the air was pestilential from ordure, from the carcasses of the dead, and the infectious diseases of the dying.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott